Doing The Right Thing

We normally know what the right thing is. Even if a person is inclined toward malicious acts, he or she knows that what he is about to do is wrong. And if we want to improve ourselves, we normally know what we must do. If we want to live a healthy life, we need to watch our food and exercise. If we want to have a good relationship, at home or the office, we have to take the time and communicate. If we want to improve our career, we have to work diligently and be proactive at work. If we want to have good financial savings, we have to spend less.

We know all this things. At least, we know the gist of it. The details are a bit different, as people or even expert differs in how to execute things, for example what is meant by eating healthily. But generally we agree on the consensus on what the right thing is, or are. However knowing is the easy part, doing is the hard part. Because in doing the right thing, there is almost always something that needs to be tolerated, compromised or sacrificed. If these opposing is too hard or too strong, most of the time we will not succeed.

On the other hand if the gain is very big, it makes the sacrifice much easy. Or seem easier. I remember my teacher once said, “If it is worth having, then it is worth doing,” when I asked whether I should this or that after finishing high school. Whether it is worth having or not, depends on the person, his value, and condition.

So in short, to succeed, we have to do the right thing.
To be able to do the right thing, we either have to make the opposing force/friction so low or low enough that we will continue doing the right thing, or make the gain so big or seem so worthwhile, that we keep doing the right thing.

Right, that sounds simple enough. Now to go and do the right thing.

Thanks for reading.